Not all things at the Lakota School System have been bad. I personally like the treasurer for Lakota, Jenni Logan. She is very competent and is more than able to manage a multimillion dollar budget. School board members Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, and Linda O’Conner I personally like, even though they are way to the political left of me. I think they mean well. And the current spokesman Randy Oppenheimer seems to be a pretty honest person with his heart in the right place. Even though I think spokesmen for public education should be illegal, Randy is not bad at his job. Recently in the Hamilton Journal Randy gave an honest assessment of Lakota’s financial situation that deserves recognition. He stated along with reports from many other local schools regarding Governor Kasich’s new education budget that Lakota had been planning for a reduction in state funding so the news that cuts would not be forthcoming was seen as a budget surplus. The quote from the paper can be seen below with a link to the article following.
“Lakota Local Schools — with enrollment around 16,625 — is set to receive $35.6 million in 2013; and would receive $4.1 million or 11.6 percent more the first year, and $849,318 or 2.1 percent the second year. “We had projected a cut in funding, and the governor made his comments (last week) and indicated we couldn’t be cut,” said Lakota spokesman Randy Oppenheimer. “Any increase in funding is good news.”
That statement says that at least some of the management team at Lakota is crunching the numbers properly. At this point I have my doubts but logic would dictate that Lakota shouldn’t ask for another school levy for more than a decade since their student enrollment is set to decline over that time span. When Lakota was asking for school levies every 6 months a couple of years ago and we were fighting like cats and dogs Lakota had a student population of over 18,000. By the time The United States elects another president Lakota’s enrollment should hover just over 10,000, and I would expect that the staff of over 2000 employees would have to be cut to reflect that loss in demand. There may even be a combination of schools where some of the buildings will sit empty for lack of need. This is good news for the tax payers of Lakota as they should be able to save millions upon millions in staff that costs a lot of money in salary and benefits. If Lakota is smart, like some of the people who have emerged within the last couple of years have shown themselves to be, they wouldn’t ask for another levy till well after 2020. Their tax base will stabilize, new businesses continue to move into the area which contributes money to that base consistently—which should flood the market with new money once the Liberty Way development takes off in 2014, and home sales from the Carriage Hill development where Homearoma is taking place in the summer of 2013 will contribute revenue per household well above the 250K per pupil tax base needed to maintain a funding model of 20 mills. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CARRIAGE HILL.
http://www.carriagehillliving.com/homearama/
Those are all wonderful and exciting things. Carriage Hill and the Liberty Way shopping complex will naturally expand the tax base while student enrollment will be declining rapidly bringing down the cost demands at the Lakota School System, if management does not give away the kitchen sink to the employees with excessively high labor contracts. I would think that it would be worth a reasonable salary of between 50K per year to 60K per year for a 10 to 20 year veteran of education to teach at Lakota where the kids are nice, the parents care about their children, and the community is thriving versus going after 70K to 80K per year in salary teaching in a district like CPS which is a declining community because the taxes are too high and there are way too many parents on government assistance, which statistically leads to poverty and crime.
The people who aren’t happy at Lakota are those who push for more school levies that also happen to be real estate agents, people like Joan Powell who is the current president of the school board, and tax advocates like Pam Parrino who is also involved in real estate. CLICK HERE to review when she threatened radio station WLW for giving me airtime to discuss school salaries hoping to discourage that kind of activity in the future—which obviously didn’t work. When it became obvious to me that these types of people were using the Lakota School System to sell properties in their fields of endeavor by pushing for perpetual tax increases, exploding student enrollment by selling homes to families in the demographic age of 25 to 35 with 2.1 children per household, and covering the activity on the backs of children’s needs, the civil discussion we had been conducting erupted into an all out fight. When the levy supports couldn’t win a tax increase from the public on the merit of argument they turned to more deceitful peer pressure and personal destruction. I have never put up with that kind of thing, and I never will. My current thoughts about those school levy advocates is that I don’t want 2/3 of my property tax bill to find its way into any of their pockets even indirectly. And I will work my ass off to make sure that the more than 20,000 homes in Lakota who do not have children in the district learn of the motivations of those types of people because the only way to keep money safe is with a defeat at the ballot box. I’ve seen enough evidence from the other political side to know that none of the levy support had one ounce of anything regarding the well-being of children. It was for the well-being of the real estate agents who wanted an easy home sale and to make money off chaos in the Lakota community.
The home owners who purchase homes ranging from $700,000 to $1.2 million at the new Carriage Hill development are not the types of families who bring 2.1 children into a school district seeking to flood the market with a desire to for free babysitting while they work an average job at P & G, climbing up their personal career ladder. The people looking to purchase homes in Carriage Hill will be successful people in their own right and most likely will find instruction for their children in private schools or tutors and won’t use the services of Lakota anyway—even though like the rest of us without kids in the school, will have to pay for it.
I don’t like the idea of having to spend the next 40 years of my life paying for kids to attend Lakota through my property taxes. I don’t like the amount I pay now, so an increase is unfathomably ridiculous and I know that the people who invest in communities like Lakota won’t keep their money in the distinct if they find it continuously stolen from them by short term thinking levy supporters. The fight in the Lakota School District is not over children, it’s over whether or not Lakota becomes the next Fairfield—overrun with Section 8 housing and degraded property value or continues to increase in value like Indian Hill has over the years with managed development and growth. Chaos and reactive spending will not lead to perpetual prosperity. The growth of the Lakota district has more to do with residents fleeing high tax communities from around the country than the nice trees and school system that levy supporters believe. It is low taxes and prosperity that are the most attractive feature to the affluent property owner, and that must be protected if the district wishes to maintain its value in the future.
Lucky for people like Jenni Logan, Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, Linda O’Conner and Randy Oppenheimer the numbers work in their favor at Lakota to not just sustain themselves but survive well into the future maintaining an Excellent with Distinction rating that reflects the community it resides in, even if the most affluent send their kids to private instruction. I hope they accept the manageable challenge of allowing the enrollment rates to decrease as the tax base stabilizes without asking for further tax dollars. That would be the responsible thing to do in virtually every facet of community management. The worst thing they could do is listen to the short sided utterances of their levy hound real-estate agents who want a levy increase to lure in more panicky 30-year-old parents who cry over every drop of spilled milk and perceived threat to their children’s lives who are still children themselves and willing to spend infinite amounts of money on education to compensate for their own internal insecurities as parents. Those are not the kind of people who should shape the direction of our community for the future. So a lot rests on how the school management team above handles 2013 at the Lakota School District and the numbers that are now known before them.
We’ll see………………………………………………
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
The Overmanwarrior 
Simple answer…. Move !!!!
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Oh good, you are one of those levy supporters. And you’re moving! That would be wonderful, thanks! You will do our community a great service.
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I’m not as nice as Rich, so just let me add that you’re a worthless parasite, and may want to reconsider asking the “host” to move.
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Thanks. Yes, I am the host. I’ve paid a lot more in taxes over my lifetime to this district than she can ever hope to.
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Here’s the thing, too. Does she really think this is some game?
She may want to rethink the attitude. While her husband is out banging hookers he picks up off of craigslist, and while she sits at home alone eating ice cream and getting fat- the rest of us are reading, working out with weights, and target practice training.
I mean really, if we’re heading for a second civil war, and we are, the parasites may want to reconsider such bluster.
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I can’t argue with that. Most of these chicks live through their children hoping that nobody sees what screwed up lives they really live through dysfunctional relationships. They really believe that pushing for levy passage will redeem them of their many social, and personal faults.
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Dear Janet,
there are many of us anti-levy folks who did in fact move…at a great loss I might add.–thanks to the lakota-nomics. I feel so sorry for the folks who are stuck there having to fight increase after increase year after year. Rich backs up his point of view with a lot of facts, not bluster. Pay attention.
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Thank you. She’d do well to pay more attention instead of playing “pass the school levy.” They treat it like little girls playing dress up or something.
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Ok, so I understand the worries of people about paying too much money in levy dollars. Im now a Lakota graduate in my first year of college, and I’m floored by this article. I don’t think you people understand how hard my last three years of high school were at Lakota West. We lost school busing to every grade level. I had to drive one of my friends to school for one and half years because he couldn’t get to school any other way. We lost a dozen teachers after my junior year. GREAT teachers that I miss because they were human beings, not a statistic. The band program, one of Lakota’s greatest achievements, received several cuts. They lost an entire band because they couldn’t afford all of the kids wanting to do band.
The biggest crush of all was the loss of an entire school period. We went from seven class periods in a day to six. Because of that MONUMENTAL change to the school system I wasn’t able to get an honors diploma. Not because I didn’t try hard enough, I tried REAL hard. Took all of my needed classes, plus more. I never slacked off once or took a study hall. I would have been fine had the district not gotten rid of a class period. Because of that I wasn’t able to take the one class I needed to receive it. OH I almost forgot about the German language program getting cut. I was in that for 4 years thank god. I’m real freaking glad I made it out before that got cut. It sucks I had to lose my favorite teacher of all time my fourth and last year of taking German. My only consolation is that he now works at Walnut Hills, good for him.
Look, I have no idea what is like yet to have a house. I don’t know what it’s like to pay a mortgage, to pay bills, to pay taxes, but what I do know is what it’s like to be in a school that is failing to fund itself. I don’t what kind of facts you look at, but just know that because of people like you I was kept from having one of the best high school experiences ever. It just sucks that it was hindered so much near the end. Stop complaining about Lakota spending too much or needing to spend less. If that’s your issue then try and change the school system. Bashing them like you are is NOT going to help. I know it sounds cliche to think about the children BUT DO. Why are you risking the education of the children in the school district? I couldn’t do anything while in school to try and help it. I was a kid, what could I have possibly done besides sit back and watch the supposedly best years of my life get slowly budget cutted away.
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Nicely stated comments. Very good.
You can’t change the system by throwing money at it. They are a functioning monopoly guilty of price fixing and they use children to run cover for their scam. That is reprehensible.
Their choice to cut busing was due to their lack of desire to drive down their employee wages. Their desire to raise sports fees was pure extortion to win votes. The tax payers paid for those services, and they took them away to give to a teacher’s union the expectations demanded by their collective bargaining agreement, which is just ridiculous.
It is a complicated situation if they are allowed to muddy the water, but the situation is simple when it is understood that they have no long term plan but to always increase taxes for wages that are not worth what they are selling.
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Also, on a separate note, these are not the best days of your life. If they are, you have set those goals too low. There is a lot of good to live in life, and you really don’t get to taste it fully until you are in your middle thirties. It takes that long to shrug off the limits of the people who attempted to mold you, and to earn with fiscal power your independence. When you can do those things, you will never look back on your high school days with fondness. People who do are lost adults who do a great deal of damage to the next generation.
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I’m extremely discouraged by your harsh statements about young families: your statement about “more panicky 30-year-old parents who cry over every drop of spilled milk and perceived threat to their children’s lives who are still children themselves and willing to spend infinite amounts of money on education to compensate for their own internal insecurities as parents. Those are not the kind of people who should shape the direction of our community for the future.” On top of that, saying that teachers should be perpetually happy with a $50K salary — that statement borders on idiotic.
to the last point — for you to say that teachers should be satisfied with making a lot less money than CPS teachers because Lakota has a nicer clientele with nicer surroundings……you obviously have no idea about how middle-class teachers live their lives. Many Lakota teachers are such incredibly gifted, highly-trained professionals — THIS is why the schools are good, not just because the kids come from nice neighborhoods! Professionals deserve to be paid professional salaries — I doubt seriously that anyone would recommend that doctors at all the new West Chester medical buildings should work for less money than if they worked near UC, just because Lakota is a “nice place to work” — the idea is ridiculous.
As for your first point and insulting disdain of young families, and your obvious preference for the so-called “successful” people who will buy homes in places like Carriage Hill — your Republican and/or Tea Party and/or NRA affiliations are so obvious, I don’t even have to ask. “Success” is not measured through ownership of a big house — and 30-year-old parents with 2.1 kids do not come to Lakota because they are insecure and want the school to be a babysitter!
Your economic analysis of the Lakota schools’ needs may be perfectly accurate, they may not need any addition levy monies–perhaps in this regard, you are exactly right in everything you say.
However, if you want to influence people and get them to see your point of view, I would suggest that delivering insults to hard-working teachers, and young families who want the best possible homes and schools for their kids, is not the best way to go about it.
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I tried the other way and it didn’t work. I’ve been nice, diplomatic, articulate, and understanding. But it didn’t work. Nobody listened, so I have decided that if they don’t care, and wish to be abusive, then I won’t either. Its time to drop the trappings of politeness and speak honestly. I don’t like you people, and I don’t want you to steal my money for your livelihoods, or to corrupt the next generation with progressive tripe. I’ve already been successful influencing people. But the school didn’t listen. So I’m done being nice and I really don’t care who follows.
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You know NOTHING about teaching. EVERY kid must grow. Its just as hard to teach the top kids than the lower kids. Just because Lakota has good families with good students our teachers should make less???
Thats like saying p&g employees should make less because they have all the latest technology, more resources to make their products than a small budiness. sounds like a socialist plan to me. Funny, you want Lakota schools to operate like an efficient business, in a capitilistic manner, yet you propose a socialistic approach to paying employees.
I’m sure glad the community doesn’t listen to you anymore….
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Don’t assume you know what I know. I have volunteered to teach not just one class at Lakota, but four at the same time and I made that dare formally……….to Lakota staff…….two years ago. So far, crickets.
I’m sure there are a lot of P&G workers standing around the water cooler trying to pretend they’re busy, talking about last night’s television shows and hoping that nobody listens to me anymore. After all, they don’t want to lose their free baby sitting service during the day. But a lot of people do. Do you think I’d go to all this trouble if they didn’t? After all, I’m tired of dealing with people like you, and would love to see Lakota and all its levy supporters fall right off the edge of the world. I wouldn’t lose two seconds of sleep. But, I continue to be involved, even though I’m tired of the argument. I don’t even try to window dress my disgust any more, and that does rub people the wrong way, and I could care less. But as to listening to me………….here’s a few recent examples.
What is the latest thing that you’ve done? Just because I haven’t been to the latest school board meeting or community circle jerk, it doesn’t mean nobody is listening. You’d be surprised how many “community” people are sick of levy supporters. They just keep it to themselves.
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Yeah, about 20 people “listen” to you. There’s always a certain percentage of the population that’s wackjobs.
I’m sure the tea party has distanced themselves from u and your sexist comments. LOL,
Guess pg workers are lazy people too. Wow, if we all could be like you. (How miserable the world would be)
As for offering to teach, you have to have credentials and class…that you have none of. And the reason you do this…. Attention, and u actually think you are changing something
Good day, comrad,
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Sexist……….hummm. You should read this.
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/the-beta-man-why-fifty-shades-of-grey-is-so-successful/
Just trying to help a comrad out. Don’t be a Beta.
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Even funnier, you moderate your comments, socialist at heart..
Wow..
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You are a confused fellow. You obviously don’t have any idea what a socialist is.
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One thing it is for sure, limiting the pay based on what leaders think and not the free market, spreading the wealth. Your birdbrained teacher idea us just that. You are not following a market but what you, rich the man, thinks it should be to keep money in his pocket.
I’m wasting my time and energy on you. Later, comrad
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Thanks for proving my point. The market determines the value, not a bunch of bitchy teachers. And if you think its only 20, you should meet more people.
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Been waiting 5 years for this….ha ha haha
Novembra, LOL
Finally, the majority has come to their senses and no longer want to see their community suffer because of no good politicians that haven’t solved this problem.
Call you local congressman. Get him on this , try putting energy into making real changes that don’t hurt our children.
Later, you have no issue to get attention anymore. We know you won’t he contacting our local rep to actually do something.
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As long as you want something out of me, I’ll continue having fun with people like you.
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Yeah, greed, your last statement proves it. As long as you want something from ME.
Yep , you are greedy and could Cate less about the children of Lakota.
Have “fun” paying those taxes. LOL
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I’ll get it back out of your type one way or the other. I don’t want to pay for your procreation. That’s your job. I don’t support the group hug democracy where people like you can steal value from people who think you make bad decisions. The system is a bad one, I’ve always been against it and because of people like you, its made me hate it more over time. Like I said, I’ll get my money’s worth.
What does a spouse who wants a divorce do to their partner when they want a divorce? They make their life miserable until the other party aggrees to the seperation. I want a divorce from Lakota. I’ll get it eventually…….mark it on your calender. It will take a while. But the divorce will eventually be granted.
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Alright you bloodsuckers, you finally cried loud enough & pulled enough heartstrings to drip me a little dryer. You better be churning out Rhodes scholars daily. And do me a favor…the entryways & foyers of these school palaces you’ve built, try to find a use for these tens of thousands of wasted square feet. At least make an effort to convince me you’ve made some use of my money.
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Ditto.
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Does the divorce mean you are leaving? Good riddance…LOL
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Oh and by the way, you love the roads that the group hug democracy created. You like the military that the group hug created. How about the freedoms your group hug democracy has created and protects. Funny, you hate the excellent with distinction school district that helps your property values. Someone is greedy and miserable…
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I’d rather fly than drive and I don’t need the military. I won’t be moving. I’ll be hear long after your kid has come and gone. And I will be there to always remind everyone in the future what a bunch of dumb asses you guys were in 2013. The charts will tell the whole story and it will be very clear what happened and what was done with the money.
To you greed is when someone says they don’t want to be robbed.
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Well since you’d rather fly than drive and don’t need the military. You probably don’t need the group hug created by the police and fire. So, please call them both. Tell the fore department that if your house catches fire, you got it covered with your garden hose.
And if someone commits a crime against you, you’ll do the detective work.
No need to use those group hug union thugs.
Go for it Mr. I don’t need govt. Give them a call. Let us know when you’ve done it.
Divorce the police and fire. They can leave you if you get in a wreck too.
Nice thinker..Hmmmmm.LOL
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And further more. I don’t want to pay for your protection the police provide. I want a divorce from them. they should not patrol your Neighborhood. Why should I pay for the gas and their salary? If the fire dept pulls you out a bad wreck with the jaws of life. Heck, I shouldnt pay for that! Why?
Same logic you are using against the schools. And yes, valuable educated people that benefit society are providedby the lLakota schools. So , you are benefitting from their products. Now , if you live in Cincinnati, I would sympathize somewhat.
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Now you’re getting it. I don’t want the police or fire department either. If you remember Issue 2 I had it out with them over this very issue. They are in a union, and the only thing I need from them is to come file the report for court. Otherwise, I have it covered. I’ve put out more fires, provided CPR, and been involved in dangerous activity than most active duty police and firefighters. So, yeah, I can easily do without them. I do not benefit from their product. They just get in the way.
Now you have shown clearly why you are a levy supporter.
And I have been in many car wrecks, many of them over 100 MPH. I walked out of all of those without the “Jaws of Life.”
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Ok, make sure you contact them to make them aware. Also, put a note in your car to make sure they don’t transport you no matter what condition you are in.
And while your at it, don’t use any roads crested by the govt, nor buy products created by people that went to public schools, products of the government.
And, get off the internet, that was created by a govt funded university.
Oh, and any medical advancements found by govt dollars, don’t use those.
Just go live somewhere put in the woods you rebel, eating totally off the land.
Yeah, the government really sucks.
Funny, you use George Lang as a promotion for your book about corrupt politicians. LOL, irony
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The trouble with all the things you said is that your government people have injected themselves everywhere, so it is impossible to step out your door without someone who thinks like you wanting something. I bet you are the kind of guy who doesn’t even change his own oil. And talking about George Lang, now you are showing what you’re all about. Are you buddies with Wong……..because you think the way he does.
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Oh and to further make you look Luke the liar and delusional fool you ate.
Prefer to fly huh?
He and his wife enjoy marathon motorcycle trips and is most recently proud of a trip to Key West where they covered over 3000 miles in less than 7 days
Get off the PUBLIC WORKER created roads Rich.
Divorce the all public services.
I’m tired of paying for your road use for your marathon motorcycle trips causing wear and tear on roads.
LOL, stick a fork in you rich. Youll never publish this comment, you are done!
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If the government didn’t make the road the private sector would have. In fact, if the government got out of the transportation business, I’d already have my Skycar. Its your Department of Transportation that is holding that up because they are worried about maintaining their highway budget.
I pay for the roads with the freaking gas tax, nearly .50 cents for every dollar! Then people like you want even more taxes! A private road would be MUCH cheaper if the taxes and government were removed and the tolls were paid alone. But we’ll never know because GOVERNMENT is embedded all over them, and is now holding back a new technology. On that trip I paid over 15 dollars in tolls just to get around Miami, AND I paid for taxes with all the fuel I used. You didn’t pay for anything but some government workers to stand on the side of the road and eat fast food.
Now, what are you sticking a fork in? And how am I done? Surely that isn’t a threat? You aren’t that stupid are you? And did you answer my question about a personal meeting. I’d like to see you face to face if you want to keep this up.
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Excuse it away. You want the govt services that only YOU see as a benefit to YOU.
Does govt get way too involved, hell yeah. I’m pretty conservative. I don’t vote either party because they are both morons.
You don’t see how educating children benefits our society. You bash teacher unions. Why? Because they make 60,000 average?? Seriously?
Don’t tell me you are one of those tea party hypocrits. You’ll bash unions but go and watch major league baseball or football which have union “thugs” too.
Guess some athlete making millions playing a game is more important than some “bitchy” teacher. Again, this thinking is selfish and about YOU., your enjoyment.
Stick a fork is an expression. Not a threat, not sure how in the world you’ve never heard that before.
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You know, I don’t like the unions in sports either. They are driving up pay and ticket prices too much. I don’t like going to games for that very reason, because I don’t want to pay for those large salaries.
Its not the education I’m against, its the type of education that is a real problem. I don’t like what I see coming out of young people who are more dependent than self-reliant. They are learning this in school more than anywhere else, and I don’t support that kind of teaching.
And I don’t see any government services that I’ve advocated which I benefit from. You brought some up, but I pointed out my lack of value for each of them.
So you are a teacher? Most teachers are not worth $60,000. Too many people making that much money causes a payroll problem that is excessive, and causes needs for higher taxes.
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Yeah, excellent with distinction for so many years just isn’t good enough…LOL, waaaahhh
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Are you a school official? We should meet in person. I’d like to interview you for something I’m working on. Your view points are perfect.
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Jim, I also see the value in public services. Excuse me for not wanting to write a blank check. A 5.5-mil levy (!!!). The voters just gave this school district enough of my money to buy everything they want/need & wipe themselves with the leftover bills. This for a district that had just, in recent years, managed to balance a budget & keep union bully power at an appropriate (low) level. Now what? Diamond-crusted door handles? It’s math & science & reading, it’s not a Paris Hilton birthday party. This idea of throwing money at everything has caused so many problems. If the parents of this community had enough faith in themselves, they’d be a part of their kids’ “excellent with distinction” rating without needing to buy every teacher an Audi. Obviously that isn’t the case.
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Well said Dan. Very well said. That guy is very mad for the reasons that he wants to cover up his desire to steal from us for a product that only has value so long as the government maintains a monopoly, and he doesn’t want to think about that reality. He’s using all the classic union talking points. Unions know that the only place they can last is off tax payer dollars. Because the private sector just leaves to run away from them. When unions attach themselves to our homes, there isn’t anywhere to run to. That’s their stated goal. That is why they are able to steal our money at Lakota.
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Dan, hmmmm.Pssssst, it takes money to educate children. It’s not as black and white as you think. Teachers are the biggest influence in educating a child. Should money not be put into the most important resource of a business? See, anti levy folks don’t see that a happy , well paid employee works harder. (Unless they are in business, then you say it) the teacher pay and evaluation system is changing. Educate yourself instead of using no Lakota talking points.
Its funny to see people that know NOTHING about education talk like its so simple.
Everyone is an expert because they sat in a desk for 12 years.
I am z conservative. I have never agreed with the rep take on education. Its bot black and white. You are dealing with people. They cone with many different issues, ways if learning and experiences.
You will never understand.
Anyway. When you find that diamond/gold played door knobs, let me know.
Oh, that was just rhetoric from you. Sorry
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Dude, I’m so glad to hear from you again. I thought you went away. I have a special dedication just to you tonight. So, you are a teacher–at Lakota. You have shown a lot of great information. Most importantly, why teachers should not be paid more than $50K per year. You are obviously not qualified to teach a child by the things you say, and certainly aren’t worth such large sums of money. Let alone, you are attached to me by strings that should not exist. I shouldn’t have to pay you anything–because you are not the kind of person I think should be teaching children. You see, its true that teachers are some of the biggest influence in children’s lives, and that’s the problem. That means the quality of the teacher needs to be addressed instead of just throwing money at them. Because the job is so important–government cannot be trusted to do it. The Lakota school board eats out of your union’s hand–that is our elected representatives for you. So government obviously doesn’t work. The only reason you support it, is because under no other circumstances would a person like you earn anything close to a respectable salary.
Now that doesn’t mean you are a bad person. I’m sure you have some redeeming value. But look at the things you have written here. They sound like a 15-year old child–and you are a teacher? Give me a break. Man, you have confirmed many of my points for me over this last week. Thanks for the material.
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Mr. Hoffman, I am sorry I’ve been so stupid. As a teacher I know there are plenty of teachers who waste time playing video games during class, and think that the tax payers are fools for spending tax dollars on our lavish salaries. You are right, and we were so wrong. I wish I could only repay the Lakota community the equivalent to the devastating impact we have imposed on everyone. I wish I had taken time to educate myself.
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Oh, and if u look at the new evaluation systemby gov kasuck, u will see things changing. Educate urself!! LOL
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That evaluation means nothing. It will continue to mean nothing so long as public schools hold a monopoly and teachers unions run the schools–forcing everyone to buy a product that sucks.
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I think I’m going to read all your stuff and educate myself on my failures.
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When you start name calling that’s where the line is drawn. Which class do you teach there at Lakota? I’d be happy to show you how its done. As far as the truth, you wouldn’t know it if it was stuck to the ass of the people you kiss. You’re just another brain washed fool who repeats union talking points, like a parrot. That’s why you idiots cost so much money. Keep living in fantasy land dirtball.
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Oh, and Jimmy boy, here’s your truth.
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/joe-rehm-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-no-lakota-signs-why-the-2013-should-be-recalled/
Like I said, if I have to pay for you, I’m going to at least get my money’s worth.
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